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• Rank: Lieutenant
• Current assignment: Chief Medical Officer, Deep Space Nine
• Full Name: Julian Subatoi Bashir
• Year of birth: 2341
• Parents: Richard and Amsha Bashir
• Education: Starfleet Academy and Medical School, 2359-2369
• Marital status: Single
• Office: Infirmary, DS9 Promenade
• First Seen: "Emissary" (DS9)

Complete Bios:
FROM STARTREK.COM

Although medically brilliant, Bashir has come a long way in his personal development and maturity since arriving among the first Starfleet contingent at Deep Space Nine, his first post-Academy assignment, at age 27 on SD 46390.1.

Bashir first recalls wanting to be a doctor at age 5, when he sewed up his teddy bear Kukulaka as his first "patient." Five years later, while living on Invernia II where his father, a Federation diplomat, was stationed, a massive ionic storm caused the needless death of a same-aged native girl; it was an incident which he credited as his first real push to study medicine — though not before overcoming a childhood fear of doctors. Their seeming power over life and death led him to break the mystery by becoming one, when he realized he just wanted to help people. Even so, he seriously considered a career in tennis before realizing he was no pro. He was a star athlete in the sister sport of racquetball, though, and later played on the Academy team. Both Bashir's parents were still alive in 2370.

Bashir chose a medical career with Starfleet over his one true love in life to date, the ballerina Palis Delon, and the chance to be a chief of surgery in Paris within five years at the medical complex her father headed. He still sometimes regrets it, but he's not spoken to her since he left Earth. One of his forebears, a great-grandmother Whatley, was in Starfleet.

At Starfleet Academy, where the required reading helped him recognize the so-called mirror universe instantly, one friend was an Andorian, Erib. He also studied meditation with Isam Helewa.

In medical school, Bashir kept diaries revealing his fear of failure, his drive to graduate at the top and to have a career in Starfleet. He had designed a candy bar in med school whose nutritional value was even higher than that of Starfleet combat rations; interestingly, he was first in his class in pediatric medicine. With natural energy and stockiness, Bashir was a star player in racquetball, serving as captain of the Starfleet Medical School team when it won the sector championship his last year there in 2368-69; in the finals, he defeated a Vulcan.

A trick question during orals at Starfleet Medical about ganglia dropped him to class salutatorian — but it was good enough to net him his prized DS9 assignment: heading for the "frontier" where heroes are made. The slip-up allowed Elizabeth Lense to finish first — she later confided she envied his long-term post. She had always confused him with an Andorian when mis-introduced.

Among the DS9 personalities, Bashir was immediately drawn to the Cardassian clothier Garak, hitting it off with the former spy and his air of mystery. In ongoing debates at their weekly Replimat lunches, they discussed comparative literature, drama, philosophy and politics. A year later Bashir saved his life, confirming his former spy career in ending Garak's toxic build-up caused by the shock of breaking dependence on the pleasure endorphins released by an altered pain-immunizing cranial implant. He braved meeting former Obsidian Order chief Enabran Tain to get the Cardassian medical data needed to synthesize new leukocytes in time.

His green cockiness and casualness at times has especially annoyed the less patient veterans like Kira and O'Brien. Under the effects of Lwaxana's Zanthi Fever he developed a crush on Kira — perhaps due to a latent attraction. He and O'Brien did gradually form a bond, helped along by his saving O'Brien's life; the chief even calls him Julian as he'd once requested. They played 70 games of racquetball in the first two months Molly and Keiko left for the Bajor survey in 2371; after 106 games their sport of choice becomes the simpler setup of darts. Still, he's a poor lunch debate substitute for Garak. When he felt his old Starfleet Medical rival Elizabeth Lense had snubbed him, he got drunk with O'Brien and sang "Jerusalem." In 2372 he wrote a holo-program for he and O'Brien, role-playing RAF pilots in the Battle of Britain during Earth's World War II.

Bashir's earnestness was not mistaken with Dax, for whom he developed a crush en route to DS9. He ignored her aloofness and even patient amusement and for a while misjudged Sisko, feeling him a fellow suitor. Though that crush lingered for some time — he loaned her the diaries he kept in medical school so she might understand him better — he eventually developed a strong, fond friendship for her. The hardest act he's faced was cutting Jadzia's link to Dax at gunpoint and forwarding the symbiont to Verad, its hijacker, while frantically keeping Jadzia alive afterward against all odds — including a dressing-down of his Klingon guard. He later saved her again, taking the risk with Sisko to uncover the Joran Belar scandal at the Symbiosis Commission on Trill.

Echoing other single career officers, he feels marriage only leaves behind a family destined unfairly to worry about him on duty. Significant romantic encounters, aside from his "true love" of the ballerina Palis Delon, included a brief but warm affair with the Elaysian Ens. Melora Pazlar in 2370, and a somewhat longer relationship with Leeta, a Bajoran Dabo girl at Quark's. Bashir and Leeta were involved for a few months until they ended their relationship in 2373 with the Bajoran Rite of Separation on planet Risa.

His was the body kidnapped by dying Kobliad criminal Vantika to house his consciousness, and after a usually fatal telepathic assault from a Lethean, he fought through a resulting coma back to consciousness with an hallucination peopled with his friends to represent personality aspects. He was watching his weight at the time of Dax's zhian'tara in late 2370.

He considers himself a history buff but is not big on 21st-century Earth, calling it too depressing. Though an aficionado of food such as Klingon racht, even alive, and Vulcan plomeek soup, he doesn't like beets. He once saw a "memorable" exhibit of Seyetik's huge murals on Ligobis X and has learned about Bajoran music since arriving on DS9. Urged on by Garak, he has tried Cardassian literature but finds it boringly predictable — including Cardassian enigma tales, as opposed to Terran mysteries. He also likes live theatre, but feels human plays of the last century are in decline. Tennis is his favorite sport, even though he played racquetball in college, and still does with O'Brien, as well as darts. He also loves puzzles.